Welcome to the
Waterford Birds website,which aims to provide comprehensive up-to-date and archival information on the birds of County
Waterford (Ireland). See main menu (above) for detailed contents or below for latest news etc.

Finding Birds in Ireland (2nd
edn): The updated & expanded second edition of this very useful guide
by Eric Dempsey and Michael O'Clery provides details of birding opportunities at almost 550 locations throughout Ireland,
including 21 Co Waterford sites. €19.99 from most bookshops, or currently €15.99 plus postage from the
publishers, Gill & Macmillan.

Waterfordbirds on Twitter:
A Twitter news service (waterfordbirds @watbirds) is now available for rapid circulation
of bird news highlights for the county - sign up here to follow. See also @BrownstownBirds for Brownstown Head sightings.

BirdTrack App:
For details of the free BirdTrack app for Android & iPhone, click here - upload records from the field, including GPS coordinates. All records are available to local/county bird recorders if you
select that option when registering for BirdTrack (please do!). See also the new BirdTrack home-page.

WATERFORD
BIRD ATLAS: Fieldwork for the national Bird Atlas 2007-11 project is now completed,
but the Waterford Atlas (planned for publication in 2014) will also include records up to July 2013.
Waterford records (preferably for 2-km tetrads or with an OS grid-reference) can be entered for those seasons via the
BirdTrack website, or submitted to atlas @ waterfordbirds.com. Other records submitted to waterfordbirds
will also be used.

Target species for the Breeding
Atlas:Records of all
breeding or summering species are important, but some scarcer or easily-overlooked species are a particular priority
in the last season of Waterford coverage (click for preliminary maps), including:

Bird
records - general request for sightings: The website compilers are always interested in sightings
- not just of scarcer migrant or winter visitors, but also counts or confirmed breeding records of commoner species.
Of particular value are sightings of uncommon residents like Barn Owl (precise breeding locations of sensitive species
will not be published online or elsewhere). In addition to any records included on the website, all records will
be added to a larger database of Waterford sightings, to help with ongoing assessment of local bird status (see What to report?). Please email any sightings (recent or from any year), or digital
photos, to the website compilers. We
would also encourage you to sign up and contribute records to the online BirdTrackrecording scheme covering Ireland and Britain.

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Website contributors:

Click here for a list of those who have submitted records, photographs or other items since the website went
online in September 2004 - many thanks to you all.